1994 (#22) - The works at Villa Abbott and Jill's betrayals with Jed

The various marital turmoil experienced by various couples during this period does not fail to affect even the already discussed and criticized marriage between Jill and John. When the woman expresses her desire to have a second child to increase her family and give Billy a little brother, she tries to convince a skeptical John to conceive again. After several failed attempts, however, John is forced to admit that he is impotent because of the vasectomy. Jill, unaware until now of the surgery her husband underwent, goes on a rampage. This is the first crack in a marriage that has many obstacles and poisonous trails in front of it. The situation precipitates when, at the Abbott's house, work begins on the safety of some buildings used as outbuildings; work entrusted again to Jed. The man, despite his growing interest in Nikki, who is evidently still in love with Victor but at the same time wants to get on with her life, does not go unnoticed by Jill, who obviously suffers from sexual dissatisfaction because of the separation with John. Soon Jill, as always determined to get what she wants, finds her sexual fulfillment with Jed, who obviously cannot resist her. Finally feeling like a woman who is alive and desirable, Jill begins an intense passionate and clandestine relationship with Jed; a relationship that is consummated in the home of an unsuspecting John, who is convinced that his wife's fantasies of a new pregnancy have disappeared or at least been put aside. It is, as always, the careful and watchful housekeeper Mamie, who has never shown any appreciation towards Jill, unworthy according to her to be next to a man like John, who discovers Jill's betrayals, surprising her in bed. It is not long, therefore, before Mamie informs John of what has happened. The news of this relationship obviously shakes many people. On the one hand, Nikki, disgusted by Jed's behavior, chases the man away from the ranch intimating that she doesn't want to see him anymore; on the other hand, John openly declares that he wants to end his marriage, with a belligerent Jill, however, ready to make her case because of John's vasectomy of which she had been unaware. This is just the beginning of a tough legal battle that will see the couple as protagonists.